Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 21:30 UTC, submitted by ohxten
"Whitix is a 32-bit operating system for the Intel and AMD range of processors, licensed under the GNU GPL. It features a C compiler (tcc), Python, assembler (nasm), text editor, shell and filesystem formatter. See the Introduction to Whitix for more information." Version 0.03 was released a month ago. My, aren't we sharp today.
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I think Linux started his OS as another hobby OS too.
True, but OSes were a lot simpler back then. It is just about impossible for a new OS to emerge today and be successful. The work required is just too much.
Especially when the advantage of the new OS is simply speed. That's not an advantage. It's just a symptom of being incomplete.
Nothing wrong with hobby/educational OSes, but lets not kid ourselves as to what they are.
Member since:2005-07-06
I think Linux started his OS as another hobby OS too.
Sure, but now the existence of Linux raise the barrier of entry to make another useful OS..
When Linus started Minix wasn't really Free and there was a lawsuit against BSD and no major Free OS existed..
We do not know whether one of these "experiments" will grow up as a mainstream OS.
No, but we do know that from the kernel POV being able to provide something to users that the hundreds of kernel developers working on Linux cannot replicate is very difficult, except for a totally different design (like L4 or EROS for example).
And from the userspace either you provide a POSIX layer and you look very much like a Linux distribution which makes it hard to interest users or you don't and you don't have much software..
That said if Haiku/Syllable starts to gain traction, perharps this will motivate other OS dev to improvement for desktop usage..
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2007-10-17
It seems to be a hobby OS. If you've ever checked out osdev there are hundreds, if not thousands of hobby OS's that follow POSIX's ideas. Most of them never make it past the initial development stage, and ones like this are the result of a lot of determined work, and are quite rare.
Their point is usually a combination of study and or accomplishment.